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John Simister gets under the skin of six classics that are now officially ‘historic’

= new entry this month. Cars in italics are no longer on sale. Issue no. is for our most recent major test of the car (D = Driven, F = feature, FF = Fast Fleet). Engine shows details of the car’s comb

SPECTRAFLAIR. OTHER CAR COMPANIES MIGHT HAVE used DuPont’s wild iridescent paint system, but none employed it to better effect than TVR. It’s a point being proved to us in spectacular style by this gl

WHAT A PLEASURE to see the Ferrari 412 featured so comprehensively in Octane 268. I have owned a black manual 412 for the past 13 years – the actual cover car from Fast Lane magazine’s March 1988 issu